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Thursday, 17 April 2014

ROYALIST SINN FEIN EAT CAKE

"Dressed in white tie and tails, like all the other male guests, Mr. McGuinness looked like a perfect member of the British establishment. And indeed that is just what he has become. True, there was a protest outside the banquet by relatives of people murdered by the IRA, including a father whose 12-year-old son was killed in the 1998 bomb attack in Omagh. Even the fact that Mr. McGuinness's erstwhile terrorist organization in 1979 had murdered the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and his 14-year-old grandson, failed to dampen the festivities. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are consummate professionals, and invite to state occasions those worthies who the British political establishment advises them to invite.........Mr. McGuinness was also interested in "liberty" and "rights" of a kind. When he headed an organization that killed people by their hundreds, he said the group was fighting for the "right" to be free of British "occupation"—a claim that sounds even more ridiculous now than it did then. For not only is the situation now exactly what it was when the Provisional IRA restarted its campaign of ultraviolence in the 1970s; it was never the case—as moderate, nonviolent Nationalist and Republican citizens kept on proving—that to get to a devolved assembly in Northern Ireland you had to plant bombs." WSJ

Republican Sinn Féin

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Ruairí Ó BradaighFormer President

Des DaltonPresident

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